# Outline of Joseph Smith

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and influence of Joseph Smith:
Joseph Smith (1805 – 1844) – central figure of Mormonism, whom the teachings of most List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement hold to be the founding Prophet. Smith is also called the Prophet of the Restoration.

## Essence of Joseph Smith

* Religion
*** Monotheism – belief that only one God exists
**** Abrahamic Religions – religions Abraham is a direct prophet
***** Christianity – monotheistic religion Jesus is the founder
****** latter day saints – the teachings of Jesus needed to be restored because all existing churches fell into a Great Apostasy.
******* Joseph Smith is the Prophet who restored many lost teachings of Jesus through Revelations.

## Life of Joseph Smith
### Early life

* Early life of Joseph Smith
** Place of birth Sharon, Vermont
** Parents: Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith, Sr.
** Palmyra
** Smith Family Farm
** Second Great Awakening
** Burned-over district
** Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints)
** First Vision
** Angel Moroni
** Golden Plates
** Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)
** Hill Cumorah
** Alvin Smith (brother of Joseph Smith)
** Seer stones (Latter Day Saints)
** Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system
** Emma Smith - first wife
** reformed Egyptian

### 1827 to 1830

* Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830
** Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints)
** Anthon transcript
** Charles Anthon
** Lost 116 pages
** Oliver Cowdery
** Book of Mosiah
** Fayette, New York
** Peter Whitmer
** David Whitmer
** Three Witnesses
** Eight Witnesses
** Book of Mormon
** Church of Christ
** Confirmation (Latter Day Saints)
** Melchizedek priesthood
** Hiram Page
** New Jerusalem
** Sidney Rigdon
** Stake (Latter Day Saints)

### 1831 to 1837

* Life of Joseph Smith from 1831 to 1837
** United Order
** Elder (Latter Day Saints)
** General conference (Latter Day Saints)
** Melchizedek priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
** Zion (Latter Day Saints)
** Zion's Camp
** First Presidency
** Apostle (Latter Day Saints)
** Seventy (Latter Day Saints)
** Presiding high council
** Kirtland Temple
** Fanny Alger
** Kirtland Safety Society

### 1838 to 1839

* Life of Joseph Smith from 1838 to 1839
** 1838 Mormon War
** Anti-Mormonism
** Sampson Avard
** Danites
** Salt Sermon
** Rigdon's July 4th oration
** Thomas B. Marsh
** Orson Hyde
** Battle of Crooked River
** Lilburn Boggs
** Missouri Executive Order 44
** Haun's Mill massacre
** Liberty Jail
** Brigham Young

### 1839 to 1844

* Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844
** Nauvoo Legion
** John C. Bennett
** Nauvoo, Illinois
** Assistant President of the Church
** plural marriage
** baptism for the dead
** Nauvoo Temple
** Endowment (Mormonism)
** Relief Society
** Porter Rockwell
** Thomas Ford
** Anointed Quorum

### Death

* Death of Joseph Smith
** William Law
** Nauvoo House
** True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
** Nauvoo Expositor
** King Follett discourse
** Thomas C. Sharp
** Warsaw Signal
** Hyrum Smith
** John Taylor
** Willard Richards
** John P. Greene
** Dan Jones
** John S. Fullmer
** Carthage Jail
** Smith Family Cemetery

## Legacy
### People

* Mormons
* ex-Mormons

### Memorials

* Joseph Smith Memorial Building
* Joseph Smith Building
* Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial

### Churches

* Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)
* List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement
** patrilineal succession
** Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints)
** William Smith (Latter Day Saints)
** Joseph Smith III
** David Hyrum Smith
* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
** Brigham Young
** Utah Territory
* Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
** Rigdonite
** Sidney Rigdon
* Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
** Letter of Appointment
** James J. Strang
* Community of Christ
** Joseph Smith III

## Teachings

* Teachings of Joseph Smith

### Salvation

* Mormon cosmology
* Godhead (Latter Day Saints)
* Ordinance (Latter Day Saints)
* degree of glory

### Temple

* Freemasonry and the Latter Day Saint movement
* Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
* Endowment (Mormonism)
* sealing
* Celestial marriage
* Exaltation (Mormonism)

### Church organization

* Church of Christ
* Restoration (Latter Day Saints)
* Great Apostasy
* Council of Fifty
* Article of Faith

### Priesthood

* Priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
* Melchizedek priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
* Aaronic priesthood (LDS Church)
* Patriarchal priesthood

### Polygamy

* Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy
* Mormonism and polygamy
* Louisa Beaman

### Prophecies

* List of prophecies of Joseph Smith

## Revealed Scriptures

* Book of Mormon
* Doctrine and Covenants
* Pearl of Great Price
** Book of Moses
** Book of Abraham
** Joseph Smith–Matthew
** Joseph Smith–History
** Articles of Faith
* Inspired Version of the Bible

### Other texts

* Lectures on Faith
* King Follett discourse

## Parents and siblings

* Smith family (Latter Day Saints)
* Joseph Smith, Sr.
* Lucy Mack Smith
* Alvin Smith
* Hyrum Smith
* Samuel H. Smith
* William Smith
* Katharine Smith Salisbury
* Don Carlos Smith
* List of descendants of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith

## Related Church Presidents

* Community of Christ
** Joseph Smith III
** Frederick M. Smith
** Israel A. Smith
** W. Wallace Smith
** Wallace B. Smith
* Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
** Frederick Niels Larsen

## Family chart

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Joseph Smith, Sr. 1771–1840 Presiding Patriarch (1833–1840) Lucy Mack Smith 1776–1856
Hyrum Smith 1800–1844 Presiding Patriarch (1841–1844) Joseph Smith, Jr. 1805–1844 President of the Church (1830–1844) Emma Hale Smith 1804–1879 Elect Lady William B. Smith 1811–1893 Presiding Patriarch (1845)
Bertha Madison 1843–1896 Joseph Smith III 1832–1914 Prophet-President (1860–1914)Ada Clark 1871–1914 Alexander Hale Smith 1838–1909 Presiding Patriarch (1897–1902) David Hyrum Smith 1844–1904
Frederick M. Smith 1874–1946 Prophet–President (1914–1946) Israel A. Smith 1876–1958 Prophet–President (1946–1958) W. Wallace Smith 1900–1989 Prophet–President (1958–1978) Frederick A. Smith 1862–1954 Presiding Patriarch (1913–1938) Elbert A. Smith 1871–1959 Presiding Patriarch (1938–1958) :

## Family and descendants

* List of the wives of Joseph Smith
* Children of Joseph Smith
* Presiding Patriarch

## Latter Day Saints in popular culture
### Main article

    Latter Day Saints in popular culture

### Depictions

    The 19th Wife
    A Victim of the Mormons
    Advise and Consent
    All About Mormons
    America (short story)
    Angels in America (miniseries)
    Around the World in Eighty Days
    Bad Bascomb (film)
    Bash: Latter-Day Plays
    Be Happy Be Mormon
    Ben Banks (film)
    The Big Gundown
    Big Love
    The Book of Mormon (musical)
    The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording
    Burying the Past
    Cannibal! The Musical
    The Cremaster Cycle
    Darger family
    Doom novels
    The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
    Escape (Jessop and Palmer book)
    The Folk of the Fringe
    The Fringe (short story)
    Georgia Rule
    The Girl from Utah
    The Great Brain
    Latter Days
    Lost Boys (novel)
    Married to a Mormon
    Messenger of Death
    Millions (2004 film)
    The Monkey Wrench Gang
    More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter
    The Mormons (miniseries)
    Mountain Meadows massacre and the media
    New York Doll
    Orgazmo
    The Other Side of Heaven
    Pageant Wagon (short story)
    Paint Your Wagon (film)
    Paint Your Wagon (musical)
    The Parafaith War
    Polygamy, USA
    Probably (South Park)
    The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians
    Riders of the Purple Sage
    Roughing It
    Salvage (short story)
    Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon
    September Dawn
    Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
    Settling Accounts: The Grapple
    Sister Wives
    Stolen Innocence
    The Strangers (2008 film)
    A Study in Scarlet
    They Call Me Trinity
    Trapped by the Mormons
    Under the Banner of Heaven
    Wagon Master
    West (short story)

### Documentaries

    Get the Fire
    Meet the Mormons
    The Mountain Meadows Massacre (film)
    Presidents and Prophets

## Important places

* Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial
* Palmyra (town), New York
* Smith Family Farm
* Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints)
* Cumorah
* Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site
* Peter Whitmer log home
* Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site
* John Johnson Farm
* Zion (Latter Day Saints)
* Kirtland, Ohio
* Historic Kirtland Village
* Kirtland Temple
* Zion's Camp
* Jackson County, Missouri
* Independence, Missouri
* Far West, Missouri
* Adam-ondi-Ahman
* 1838 Mormon War
* Liberty Jail
* Nauvoo, Illinois
* History of Nauvoo, Illinois
* Nauvoo Historic District
* Joseph Smith Mansion House
* Nauvoo House
* Red Brick Store
* Nauvoo Temple
* Carthage Jail
* Smith Family Cemetery

## Works about him

* Works relating to Joseph Smith
* History of the Church
* History of Joseph Smith by His Mother
* Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
* No Man Knows My History
* Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
* An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
* Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
* The Joseph Smith Papers